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I've notice in the last few months that Wikipedia is expending a lot of energy internalizing the links on their Website. This became too obvious when they deleted the List_of_news_aggregators Wikipage. The reasons given include...

• Article is nothing but a collection of external link spam.
• A collection of external links per WP:NOT.

The page was clearly not external link spam. This is not the first recent instance where I've seen pages get deleted because of external links that I thought were entirely useful. If Wikipedia is gonna start removing outbound links, then I'm gonna stop creating inbound links. Also, I'm going to grab the last good version of that page and host it on this blog.

Update: I found out that once a Wikipedia article is deleted that you can't get at the history. A lot of people, including myself, put a lot of effort into maintaining that list. Now because of the Wikipedia zealots, all the information appears to be lost forever. Thus I changed the title of this blog entry from Wikipedia internalizing to Wikipedia sucks! This is no longer a community project, it's a bureaucratic black-hole. If anybody can recover that content and send it to me via email or post it in my comments, then I'd be greatly appreciative.